George Helm Yeaman

George Helm Yeaman (1 November 1829-23 February 1908) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-KY 2) from 1 December 1862 to 4 Marrch 1865, succeeding James S. Jackson and preceding Burwell C. Ritter.

Biography
George Helm Yeaman was born in Hardin County, Kentucky in 1829, and he became a lawyer in 1852. In 1861, he served in the State House as a Democrat, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1862 to 1865; he was one of the Democrats who was recruited to vote for the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. From 1865 to 1870, he served as ambassador to Denmark, and he then became a lecturer at Columbia College and president of the Medico-Legal Society. He died in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1908.